PSC Exam 1 Questions with 100% Correct Answers 2024/2025
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PSC Exam 1 Questions with 100% Correct Answers 2024/2025
Anarchy - ANSWERS- No formal rulers or rules
- Most likely outcome is violence
Government - ANSWERS- Rulers and rules
- Kings and Queens, Emperors etc.
- Power comes from Divine Right
Outcomes for Anarchy and Government - ANSWER...
PSC Exam 1 Questions with 100%
Correct Answers 2024/2025
Anarchy - ANSWERS- No formal rulers or rules
- Most likely outcome is violence
Government - ANSWERS- Rulers and rules
- Kings and Queens, Emperors etc.
- Power comes from Divine Right
Outcomes for Anarchy and Government - ANSWERSCountries with formal rules and rulers tend to
have more internal peace and better economies
Why do we need Government? - ANSWERS- Government gives us money
- Taxes
- Roads
- Choices are at the heart of American politics.
- Government decides how to allocate scarce goods across a large population
James Madison talks of what? - ANSWERSfactions
American's current preferences are mostly
reinforcing - ANSWERSDemocrats want one thing on many issues and
Republicans want another
Politics - ANSWERS- How people attempt to manage
such conflict
,- The process through which
individuals and groups reach agreement on
a course of common or collective action -
even as they continue to disagree on the
goals that action is intended to achieve
Successful politics almost always requires what? - ANSWERSBargaining and compromise.
Cross Cutting - ANSWERSheterogeneous (mixed up)
Reinforcing - ANSWERShomogeneous (the same)
Constitution - ANSWERScreates governing institutions and
rules prescribing the political process
Article 1, section 8 - ANSWERSThe Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts
and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United
States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Government consists of - ANSWERSInstitutions created by the constitution and charged with
making and enforcing collective agreements.
Offices - ANSWERSPositions that confer on their occupants
specific authority and responsibilities.
Authority is... - ANSWERSThe acknowledged right of the office to make a particular decision for all
participants
- Social Contract
Governments must: - ANSWERS- Combine and rank preferences.
, - Agree on a course of action.
- Implement and enforce the collective choice.
Four types of challenges to efforts of a group to
reach and implement agreements - ANSWERS1. Coordination
2. The Prisoner's Dilemma
3. Free Riding
4. Principal Agent Problem
What is The Prisoner's Dilemma - ANSWERS- When individuals act according to their best interests, the
outcome isn't always the best for the group.
- When individuals look out for themselves (taking
into account what others might do), the outcome
isn't always the best for everyone.
Principal Agent Problem - ANSWERSDelegation is another way to solve collective
action problems.
Principals - ANSWERSAre those individuals who possess
authority (the right to make decisions).
Mitigating Popular Passions - ANSWERSUnderstanding the logic of such a complex
set of institutions is important to
understanding the nature of our own
governance and the trade-offs that must
occur in any process of collective decision
making.
Issues at constitutional Convention - ANSWERS- Slavery
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